What % of your winter wheat is sown?

[Michael3112]

Oxfordshire 2000acres, roughly 60acres of wheat not drilled, an a 105acres of beans, an one 20acre field of wheat that might need re-done

 

[AndrewM]

Looks like your survey might match ahdb with their results showing 1/3rd last years wheat area not planted yet.

Probably the bigger question is how much of what was sown has survived and what will it yield.

 

[Brisel]

What about little old Rutland?

I'm sorry. You & @willy probably assume you don't matter. East Midlands or wherever you want!

 

[Brisel]

Switched the unused NI to East Anglia and changed my vote to suit, anyone who is in East Anglia but picked a different region initially just needs to change there votes (you will have to reselect all 3 options).

Thank you

 

[B'o'B]

I'm sorry. You & @willy probably assume you don't matter. East Midlands or wherever you want!

I fancy a taking a trip to the south west!
We are actually officially East Midlands I think.

 

[Brisel]

I fancy a taking a trip to the south west!
We are actually officially East Midlands I think.

You're very welcome here.

 

[Cowcorn]

That's true, but I've already got 3 options in there. I'll have a go at adding a forth, so for those of you who've already voted, please reread and add the extra choice. I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible & linking a low % with a big grower isn't possible unless there's a way of making a table with each voter (anonymously), area, region and % with a "sort" option like a spreadsheet so you can look at the rankings. That's overly complicated and well beyond my IT skills, especially if it involves hosting a spreadsheet remotely and linking a RSS feed to show the results here!

Moderators, can I have more than 1 poll in a thread so we're looking at 2 parameters at once to draw better conclusions from? I've also put N Ireland in twice when I meant to add East Anglia and can't delete it without scrapping the entire poll and starting again - how do I tidy that up? @Clive @JP1 @Chris F @Shutesy @Rob Holmes ?

Easy,Brisel just remove the northern on one of them and leave ireland!!! Then i can vote

 

[principal skinner]

400 acres winter wheat planned and drilled, got another 80 acres in during the first week in Feb as £150 feed was available for harvest movement and im sure that will pay better than spring barley. (hopefully)

All Skyfall or group 4 hards, as yet unsold.

Chalk land looks great, heavy land really does need it to dry up soon.

 

[warksfarmer]

In response to the widely vilified AHDB and grain merchant opinions on how much wheat has been sown, I thought I'd start this poll. Remember to select your region as well as your % of planned winter wheat sown.

One choice for %, one choice for region and one for the month sown (for the majority or average) to give an idea of possible yield potential. I'm not asking what the condition is, though feel free to discuss. Perhaps another thread and poll on % sown but not viable or severely limited potential?

The AHDB haven’t got a clue what’s going on. It’s bad, very bad. UK wheat could well be around 700,000ha to harvest. Normally it’s 1.9 million ish ha. With the forecast for the next two weeks being wet winter wheat is finished even for the late sown varieties.

 

[Brisel]

Easy,Brisel just remove the northern on one of them and leave ireland!!! Then i can vote

Sorry. That one was changed by Shutsey to East Anglia.

How did you get on?

 

[Spear]

No corn tilled this year. Only managed 2 dry days in a row twice since sept and then only right after heavy rain.

 

[Cowcorn]

Sorry. That one was changed by Shutsey to East Anglia.

How did you get on?

60 acres drilled out of 90 planned no barley or oats. Overall the wheat looks well given the amount of rain .

 

[Hindsight]

I fancy a taking a trip to the south west!
We are actually officially East Midlands I think.

Your part of Leicestershire for purpose of DEFRA East Midlands region - subsumed!

 

[An Gof]

I fancy a taking a trip to the south west!
We are actually officially East Midlands I think.

You’ll need your passport if you want to get into Cornwall ??

 

[Honest john]

Around these parts I observe folk have drilled where they could, not in a rotation as such.
ie Wheat Barley Wheat. Or Wheat Wheat Wheat. As some of the root cropping ground has been no go, also ground ripped up after peas beans rape in some cases has been impossible.

 

[4course]

the area we put in a fortnight ago(more than id hoped for but still not the intended area) has yet to emerge although most seems to be chitting, I wouldnt like to make any assumptions as to how many acres or % of intended cropping we will get to harvest but even if it is 93% it certainly wont be yielding 93%

 

[Wombat]

If I could take 3t/a for the bit I drilled At harvest I would take it now

 

[Wigeon]

100% drilled end October both wheat and barley.

Written off 60% of barley - rotted, not germed, slugs. And that's whole fields. Nothing on the headlands of remainder, so true figure prob nearer 70%

25% of wheat has failed due to same issue, but not quite evenly enough to write off a whole field.

Other 75% looks seriously thin.

Batcombe series clay with flints. 550 feet.

Happy days!

 

[Acke]

Wheat 100% sowed , 50% ok 50% reseed in spring!
Rye 100% good!

 

[Badshot]

I've actually got finished on wheat , but only two weeks ago.
I've a spread from October through February, never had that before.
No idea what winter wheat will yield from February planting either.

All direct drilled. Some on frost, some recently on dry surface but wet underneath. Uncharted Territory for me.
Not voted as working out percentages and when is too much like hard work during half term .